I absolutely agree 100 percent on those statements.
In this 500 plus channel universe, it is all about who has the biggest pocketbooks and advertisers--not about what it used to be when the people in front of the cameras mattered the most.
And since the former moniker of CNN Headline News switched to HLN going from 24 hours to just two shows weekday mornings, that isn't too good of a reason to write home about.
I brought this point up at the start of this thread--if HLN disappears in favor of having another golf channel, how would you feel about it?
In my case, with print magazines and newspapers going through a slow and painful decline--it would not shock me one bit if in fact HLN disappears except for the cool bits during the 1980's when the likes of Lynne Russell and Rudi Bahktiar were some of the key figures.
It happened in Chicago. From January 1, 1992 until December 1, 2019--ChicagoLand TV (or CLTV for short) was a 24 hour news channel, sister channel to WGN. Not only did they cover news faster than the regular networks, but they did live phone calls during sports themed shows, and for a few weeks at a time aired Chicago Cubs baseball games.
Enter NexStar Corporation of Dallas, and boom--the station is no more. At least, we have the memories on YouTube and a page dedicated on Wikipedia forevermore.
Mark it down and put it in the book, if it is time--Robin's time will come. At the very least, she can always do another country music album
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